The leaves, they are a chaaangin’
And falling too, all over the yard, I dread having to start the annual rake-a-thon.
Looks like fall is here and before you know it there’ll be snow on the ground.
I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since I’ve written anything here. I’ll skip the obligatory apology. But I’ve been painting my ass off trying to get all the outside stuff done before it gets too cold.
I’m actually looking forward to the winter so I can turn my focus to the inside. If you knew me you’d know I’m famous for gutting a room, re-wiring and insulating it, then sheet rocking it and then, well, waiting a year until I get around to taping it and painting. Seriously, Sam’s bedroom sat for a year in bare sheetrock before I taped it. But it was a spare room then so it was easy to just leave the door closed and forget about it.
I don’t mind the taping so much, it’s the sanding I can’t stand! I sheet rocked the upstairs hallway about 6 months ago so if I get it taped in the next couple months I’ll be ahead of schedule, right?
I did paint the whole cottage, trimmed out the windows in the back of it, and changed the color scheme a little in front. The back side of it was a whole ‘nother color, it hadn’t been painted in probably twenty years, so there was quite a bit of scraping to do on the wood part up above, but it came out pretty good. It looks really cute if you ask me, like a little house. I guess that is the definition of a cottage, eh?
And I cleaned out my shed and organized it, built a new door for it (it was doorless for over a year) and I also finally pulled wires and got electricity in it. As you can see, I have it jam packed full of stuff.
Speaking of jam packed, I need to organize the front room in the house. It’s just storage really, all the stuff that won’t fit in the computer room or the laundry room. And all the tools and stuff I have nowhere to put now that I don’t have a garage anymore. Just look at all the crap in there! Yes, those are all old Sun workstations and external drives on that top shelf. In fact, I dug up an old photo of my computer room when they were all hooked up. Here’s my Sun Stack from a few years ago. Yes, my computer room was just a little bit cluttered back then. And I do apologize about the MCSE books in the background, I bought them on sale and never even cracked them open. Now my O’reilly Unix books on the other hand, got plenty of usage back in the day…
Back to my cluttered storage room- If you look close you’ll see the bottom of the Joey Ramone figure I just had to buy (you know, it will be a collectors item one day). Yes, I’m an ideal canidate for that show “Clean Sweep” that airs on TLC!!
Yeah, I have pack rat syndrome. A severe case of it indeed!
But I’m throwing stuff out on a weekly basis and trying to get better at not saving everything. I could be worse, I don’t have jars of bent rusty nails that I’ve saved for years and years like someone I know (you know who you are). Hehe, couldn’t resist that one.
Last weekend we had Sarah up as it was her birthday that Friday. Isn’t she adorable? We just hung out and did a lot of canning. We made apple butter and apple sauce to can, and then baked a birthday cake for her and then made dinner. I guess she had fun. We pretty much worked in the kitchen all day, but for me it’s not like work if it makes the house smell yummy and the end result tastes good!
So now you see/hear how busy I’ve been last couple weeks I’m pardoned for not updating here, right? Riiiiiight…
OK, enough outta me. I hope to finish painting the trim in the spare bedroom and maybe pick up a carpet for it and lay it this weekend. That room is going to be a giant closet basically for Grace to put all her clothes and furniture in from her Mom’s house. Then I can paint the other little bedroom and make a guest room out of that.
Oh, I said I was outta here, right?
K, bye
